A Rebellion. By Krystle Johnson

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1 A Rebellion By Krystle Johnson

2 CHARACTERS New Orleans accent. Wise. New Orleans accent. Strong.

3 ACT I SCENE 5 (Scene opens up with Roy sitting on the ground outside of his mother s restaurant. He is beginning to nod off, but is awoken by the shining sun in his eyes. Getting up from the ground, he pauses, dusts himself off and starts his trek home.) (Upon his arrival home, Mama Joan is in the kitchen waiting for him.) Roy is that you? Yes mama. Boy get your behind in this kitchen right now. (Roy walks into the kitchen where Mama Joan is standing with a cup of coffee in her hand.)

4 Yes ma am. Where in the hell have you been? Do you know I haven t slept a wink all night because I stayed up worried about you? I was watching the restaurant. What the restaurant need watching for? I m pretty sure I locked it up before I left. They tried to burn it down, ma. What? I was walking down the street and they were coming in the opposite direction, straight for your restaurant and I had to do something mama, I couldn t just stand there and watch them burn it to the ground.

5 Who? The KKK. (Mama Joan puts down the cup of coffee she has in her hand and begins frantically searching Roy for any signs of cuts and bruises. She smacks him when she doesn t find a scratch on him.) Are you crazy! But mama- But mama nothing, you should of never done that! They could have hurt or worse killed you. I ve always told you to stay as far away from them as possible, why would you put yourself in that kind of situation?

6 Because I couldn t let them do that to something that you gave up so much to build. You think I rather have a restaurant than a son? No. Exactly, you think I want them to do you just like they did that Emmett Till boy? Just because it happened over ten years ago doesn t mean times has changed boy! They will kill you and get away with it. Don t ever forget that, do you hear me? Yes ma am. Now you re going to stay out of trouble until it s time for you to leave and go back to school. Is that it? No, sit down.

7 (Roy pulls a chair from under the kitchen table and sits down and Mama Joan follows suit.) I know you were trying to help me Roy and I appreciate it, I really do but I could have lived without the restaurant if that meant having you. Look at you baby, you re nineteen, you re in college and you re black. How many people your age can say that? They either end up dead or behind bars. But mama what they re doing, it s not right. Why do I have to watch what I do because they ll kill me at a drop of a dime, where s the fairness in this? There is no fairness when you colored son. They don t care who they kill, but what can we do? We can do a lot mama, all we got to do is stand up for ourselves. Let me tell you something boy, doing something is what got your father killed 19 years ago and I refuse to let you go done the same road. There s no winning with white people; your sister has only an ounce of black in her and they still treat her like she s full Negro. There s nothing you can do that can change their way of thinking.

8 What do you mean she s not full Negro, ma? Alright I guess you re old enough to know the truth now. You father didn t die when I was pregnant with Loraine, he was killed when I was pregnant with you. What? That doesn t make sense ma... then who s her father? Why would you lie to me? I didn t want to answer these same questions that you re asking me right now. Do you really want to know why I kept this from you? Yes ma am. When you were a few months old I worked for a white couple and usually the wife was with me there, but one day she wasn t and her husband was. I thought you said you would never work for white people, mama.

9 And you re about to hear the reason why if you just listen. Okay, I m sorry. That man raped me that day. When I threatened to tell, you know what he did? He laughed in my face and said who would believe a negro over me? I left that day and never returned and that s how Loraine came about. I m sorry that happened to you mama. (Shakes her head) Oh no baby, don t be sorry. Your sister is one of the best things that s happened to me. How could you forgive them just like that? Because, I have God in me and with that, nobody can break me.

10 (Scoffs.) One day you re going to understand. Now go wake your sister up for school. Yes ma am.

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